Learn how you can get an even better understanding of your Unless audiences using Google Analytics.
Most Unless customers use the Insights to analyze their audiences' performance but if you want to dig deeper or simply prefer to use Google Analytics, you can do so.
Simply navigate to your Integrations, select Google Analytics, and toggle the switch to activate it. Unless will immediately start sending data to the Google Analytics account associated with your website - no need for additional setup.
With this integration, you can deep dive into all KPIs Google Analytics provides (e.g. bounce rate, time-on-page, exit page,...) and get an even better understanding of your Unless audiences.
Once the integration is activated, Unless will start sending events to your GA account for each experience applied to the page and each associated audience. To access information about your events, log into Google Analytics, and navigate to "Behaviour → Events → Top Events".
For experiences:
For audiences:
To demo how to analyze your Unless setup using GA, we used the account of our customer Peecho. They created two audiences and two personalizations of their homepage so their setup looks like this:
Now, the following information will appear in Google Analytics:
Under Event Action you can see how often each Audience was triggered. Add the secondary dimension Page if you linked the Audience to multiple pages. In this case, both Audiences are only connected to a personalization of the homepage (click to enlarge).
By switching to the metric group "Site Usage" you can learn more about the visitors' overall sessions.
If you don't want to use the built-in goal tracking of Unless, you can track conversions and other goals using GA. For this, you first need to set up GA goals. Next, you can create custom segments (the set up of the segment depends on your goal). To illustrate, we set up this custom segment (tracking how many users looked up Peecho's /pricing/ page):
Now, we have to apply this segment to our Unless Audiences:
Zoomed in:
We can see that out of 70 users who are part of the Self-Publisher Audience, 61 looked up the pricing page - that's 87%! That indicates that the personalizations set up for this Audience are successfully steering Self-Publishers towards this goal. However, only 9 out of 25 people who are part of the Artist Audience completed the goal (36%). We should probably improve the personalizations for this Audience.
Of course, your goal is the main metric to determine the success of your personalizations. However, Google Analytics is a great source for analyzing secondary performance metrics.